Year: 2014

Reading time: 2 mins To me, morals are objective, they aren’t governed by distinct rules or laws (there is no black or white) and so I find people who make blanket statements, absolutes that leave only two options, troublesome to the point of aggravating. Over the last few years I’ve slowly been filtering out as many negative influences as I can from my life. In doing so I’ve started to see a pattern but I’m not quite sure what to call it – I’m sure there is an academic term beyond my ken for what I’m about to try and describe – but the general trend seems to be one of steering away from those with a different sense of morality to mine. I …

Reading time: 2 mins I’m in the midst of writing up my thoughts on Spotify, or rather my own experiences moving from ‘ownership’ to ‘streaming’ but until I finish that, there is one thing that Spotify makes very easy, sharing playlists. Yes, I like to give my playlists silly names. I’ve been compiling a little playlist of songs that make me smile and feel happy, the tracks share no musical genre, anything goes really, just as long as it brings a smile to my face and lifts my mood. To get some other ideas I took to Twitter and got lots more great tracks and ideas. Twitter to Spotify success! And I did! Not all of the tracks were to my tastes, obviously, and …

Reading time: 3 mins For whatever reason, it feels as if we (the universal we) don’t put enough of an importance on getting our eyes tested on a regular basis. I should know: It’s been at least six years since my previous examination and I’ve actually been thinking about getting them looked at these past few weeks. And in thinking about that, I realized that others will benefit from the research I have done lately in regards to finding out how often I should get my eyes checked, why I should do it, and where I can get it done. Hopefully the facts I have gathered from these trusted resources will assist you in your own personal eyesight endeavours. When Should My Eyes Be …

Reading time: 2 mins Poly Means Many: There are many aspects of polyamory. Each month, the PMM bloggers will write about their views on one of them. Links to all posts can be found at www.polymeansmany.com. There is a word I use a lot when describing how I try and approach life in general and when it comes to polyamory and my relationships it’s definitely something I focus on. Balance With multiple relationships at play, when it comes to making decisions things need to try and be fair and reasonable to everyone concerned. That’s not to say that every decision is always what everyone wants, but hopefully we are all having our needs met as best can be expected. In short, you can’t make …

Reading time: 5 mins One for the Mac users who like to have things kept neat and tidy, so they can focus on being productive. TL;DR version: If you are the type of person who is consistent with file naming, you can use an OSX app called Hazel to run rules on files and apply Mavericks tags making it easier to apply them to files currently in use, and legacy archive data. The arrival of tags Like many I upgraded my laptop to the newest version of OSX (Mavericks) when it was released a couple of months ago. There are a few nice features that made it worthwhile and, hey, it was free so what’s the harm? One new feature that Apple seem quite …

Reading time: 1 min 2014 has arrived and already we are a week into the new year. Time for a recap, yeah? Am I doing this right? Number of times I’ve written 2013 by accident. One. Number of (short, slow) jogs I’ve managed. Two. Number of nights sleep ruined by insomnia. Three. Number of days I’ve thought about shaving but haven’t. Four. Number of impulse online shopping buys I’ve avoided. Five. Number of kilograms I want to lose by the end of this month. Six. Number of months until I’m a volunteer at Glasgow 2014. Seven. And finally, a large number that will have impact on my life for the rest of the year and beyond. $514million. Not bad for the first seven days!

Reading time: 3 mins I seem to be on a bit of a get shit done kick at the moment. My desire to simplify and declutter continues and that in turn seems to be feeding my desire to tackle lots of the little things that rattle around in my head on a fairly constant basis. On the face of it none of them are particularly important, or at least aren’t likely to be deemed important to anyone except me, but I think that’s the point. I want to get these things done for me. That may mean I spend a night faffing with this blog, or trying to setup Slogger, or reading through the stack of back issues of Wired magazine that lie untouched …